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  • Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

    Harvest of Violence Revisited

    by David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith, Abigail E Adams, J Jailey Philpot-Munson, Edward F. Fischer, Robert M. Carmack, Jennifer Burrell, Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Barbara Bocek0, Monica DeHart1, Peter Benson2, Liliana Goldin3, Judith M. Maxwell4 ...
    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Faces of Resistance

    Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

    by S. Ashley Kistler, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Allen J. Christenson, Stephanie J. Litka, Christopher H. Lutz, Judith M. Maxwell, Betsy Konefal, W. George Lovell, Abigail E Adams, Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez0, Kevin Young1, David Carey Jr.2 ...
    Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The War Machine and Global Health

    by Abigail E. Adams, Hans A. Baer, Avram Bornstein, Patrick F. Clarkin, Scott Harding, Elaine A. Hills, G Derrick Hodge, Rohit Karki, Brandon A. Kohrt, Kathryn Libal, Judith Pettigrew, Adrienne Pine, Wietse A. Tol, David Vine, Dahlia S. Wasfi ...
    In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

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    Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

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    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

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  • Women and Wars

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  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
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  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

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  • The Hillary Doctrine

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    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

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    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

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